Here in History by Betty Laver

The Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia

The Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia, one of the three member banks of the Commonwealth Banking Corporation, traces its association in Gladstone to 1865. It was only incorporated in post offices and continued to operate as such in Gladstone until 1912. This was the year that the under the Queensland Government Savings Bank (QGSB) opened a branch in a two-storeyed weatherboard building on the eastern side of Goondoon Streets between Lord and Yarroon Streets. The premises had earlier been occupied by the Commercial Bank who had agreed to sell the furniture and fittings in the building including a pine-topped polished counter, a ledger desk and a screen door, to the new tenants.